Security Research
Today, Microsoft has released its monthly set of security advisories for vulnerabilities that have been identified and addressed in various products. This month’s advisory release addresses 88 new vulnerabilities, with 21 of them rated critical, 66 are rated Important and 1 is listed as Moderate in severity. These vulnerabilities impact Servicing Stack Updates, Windows Kernel, […]
Read More →Code Red! To all the Linux users out there, you have a high probability of getting your system hacked if you are using an older version of the command-line text editor. The most popular and commonly used Vim editor and it’s extension, the Neovim editor were recently found to be vulnerable to arbitrary code execution […]
Read More →VLC released a minor update for Vetineri, the 3.0.x release line of VLC Media Player. This has been considered an important update as it received 33 security bug fixes. Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the president of VideoLAN non-profit org, pointed out that this release has fixed the highest number of security issues so far. The two major […]
Read More →Credits : thehackernews.com Patch Tuesday is just around the corner and SandboxEscaper has continued to drop exploits one after another. A second bypass exploit, named ByeBear was brought out in the open for the already patched CVE-2019-0841. SanboxEscaper published four other zero-days including the first exploit for CVE-2019-0841. CVE-2019-0841 This is an elevation of privilege […]
Read More →With just a week gone by after the Patch Tuesday, an anonymous researcher identified as SandboxEscaper found this to be the apt time to promulgate an exploit in Windows systems. This simple, yet efficient exploit could elevate privileges on a machine to allow modification of certain restricted files which are accessible only with administrator privileges. […]
Read More →A new set of security vulnerabilities have put major tech giants and security researchers on the run. Just a set of software updates should be able to fix this. Isn’t it? The answer would be a yes and no. So let’s find out. The systems using Intel processors can be exploited using a set of […]
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